No, I am not joking, according to this piece Labour want to statue of Lady Thatcher

"A proposal is to be put before South Kesteven District Council that Grantham build a statue to Margaret Thatcher. But those proposing the idea are not the majority Conservative group but Labour councillors.Labour
district councillor Charmaine Morgan says the left is proposing the
statue as a way of boosting tourism revenues for Grantham.Coun Morgan is calling on Conservatives to back the move at tomorrow’s full council meeting in St Peter’s Hill, Grantham.In
her Journal column Coun Morgan writes: “To offer hope to local people
the Labour Group will propose a range of initiatives to encourage
tourists into Grantham. This includes a new craft centre located in the
heart of town. We also propose an exhibit and statue/bust of Lady Thatcher.“Contrary
to some rumours, despite our personal strength of feeling about her, we
feel the controversy and outside interest around Lady Thatcher provides
an opportunity to attract international tourists to our town, who spent
£11bn in our region last year."

I always go by the rule that if someone chucks insults into a debate it means you have won, But it is something different when you start a TV debate with an insult, there is only one way the interview can go from there :

KT doesnt plug or sign E-petitions as a rule ( I have many reasons) , But KT would like you all to sign this one

KT wrote a while ago about an experience he had while in care , this was not the only one and not the only home that it occurred around, KT has also heard many antidotes from friends ( at the time) and has also heard similar things from other parts of country, It is now time for all the skeletons to come out, its now time for the light to shine on the dark, its now time for justice!

I beg you to sign and share this and get as many signaturesas needed, if you can you will have my eternal and heartfelt thanks.

"The national internship scheme will ask firms to pay young people
doing work experience and warn they could otherwise risk a legal
challenge under the national minimum wage legislation. The deputy prime
minister will say that the aim is to make career progression less
dependent on "who your father's friends are".

A lot has been said about the debt and deficit in recent weeks, While the PM and Coalition Comrades spouting the line that they were dealing with the debt and deficit the truth was a different matter, I blogged a while ago about how the OBR predicted that debt was going to rise :

However, what was refreshing was that last night on Newsnight Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke admitted this :

After refusing to debate with an Israeli last week George Galloway has popped up again to dispatch his latest piece of advice :

He compares Isreal to Apartherd South Africa :

." Apartheid Israel is a cancer at the heart of the middle-east"

His Facebook page also says this :"Fighter for justice, peace & equality for all"

Equality for all unless you are Israeli, which brings us back to when he walked out of a debate last week, in the Huff Postthe organizer of the debate says this about the incident :"I was left humiliated in front of a room full of people who had waited
an hour and a half for your arrival, only to be subsequently accused of
being deceptive and misleading."

Respect party? Mr Galloway would not know respect if it came and slapped him in the face!

Sunday, 24 February 2013

When some of us say *they are all the same* we sometimes get mocked, each day on twitter i see UKIP supporters saying *vote for us were a different* , having shown before that UKIP leader Nigel Farage tells the odd porky it will not come as a shock to some that he has been caught out again telling a lie :

Now apart from not getting the the name of "Young Independence" wrong ( Its @YIofficial ) he then goes on to claim that Olly was not elected, Quite a claim i hear you say, your right, so I went of to have a look, In this piece in the Indy Olly himself says

"I was elected chairman of Young Independence by 62% of the vote and the largest absolute majority in our organisations history"

62% of the vote? That cant be true as Nigel said Olly was not elected?

Recently elected MP Steve Reed has given an interview in Pink News in which he discusses the Same Sex marriage vote , KT was caught by this tho :

" “I think it’s a shame and I think it’s wrong.”

That was on being asked about the former PMnot supporting Same Sex Marriage at last election, despite saying he would vote for next reading ( he missed the first because he was giving a speech in the USA ).

Coincidentally it is also Gordons birthday today, Happy Birthday Gordon!

The Burka banning, protectionist and anti free market party are not libertarian in any sense, If anything they are to the left of Labour, Yet UKIPs line is *Blame the immigrants* ( here ) , they claim to be different from the others but are just as full of lies and spin as Labour/Tory/Lib Dem.

We have not had a podcast or audio for a while, well that ends today, this is from over the other side of the water and involves lovely people (That does not mean i endorse or agree with every statement they make), However due to tech problems i am unable to get the embed code so you will have to click this link to go and listen :)

Do you remember Labour scaremongering this time last year? (be fair, it is hard to keep up with the bandwagons they keep jumping on), well last year Ed Miliband claimed this :

They say hindsight is a wonderful thing ( Jesus, I wish I could see the future), But for the Labour party its not that simple, they claim that it is "their NHS", Its not, it belongs to the taxpayer. anyway Ed Miliband wanted to "Save the NHS", a noble cause the left will cry!

Some say "Karma" is a twat, it is, its a twat that will come back and bite you like a erm twat ( Hence why its called Karma), It catches up with us all. The other week a report into Mids Staffs was published and it was revealed that 1,200 people had died needlessly :

But that is not all, the then health secretary refused calls for public inquiry 81 times :

Andy Burnham dismissed calls for a public inquiry in 2009 for this reason :

“The demands were for a full public inquiry but my thoughts were that would distract the management.”

But Labour dont get this, step forward Tony McNulty, the former MP who was accused of fiddling expenses and ending up apologizing to the House for it:

Despite 1200 humans needlessly dying on his parties watch, while he was in the Commons he spouts party political propaganda, but thats not all from the "One nation" party , In the Independent a few days ago it said this :

Now, some of you might not be aware about another story that has happened the last week, It involved someone having to resign over a tweet , the tweet was a quote ( that up until now no-one has claimed is not true) and here it is

During the cold war
there was a genuine threat to the UK and Western Europe from Soviet
military expansionism. The Soviet Union had the military capabilities to
destroy the UK's military presence in Germany and then push westward
and destroy the UK's RAF air defences and the Royal Navy. This would
then give them the option to force a surrender through a blockade or to
launch and all out invasion.Submarine launched nuclear weapons were the ultimate deterrent against this threat. They were almost impossible to destroy preemitvely as they hid in the vastness of the sea and inter-continental missiles
could be launched in retaliation to any invasion or nuclear attack. The
Soviets also had submarine launched nuclear missiles and the only hope
of defending against them was to find, track and attack them with Royal
Navy 'attack' submarines; Anti-submarine warfare ships and
anti-submarine patrol aircraft equipped with detection sensors and
torpedoes. Today Russia has four
submarines equipped with inter-continental nuclear missiles. These
submarines were launched in the 80s and are on their last legs. As they
are old, the noise signature they give off is significant. The Royal
Navy's newest submarine, the Astute class (costing £1B each), can
easily detect and track them every time they are at sea and would sink
them before they could launch their missiles at UK population centres. Although the Russians
are trying to re-purpose some old submarines as their new generation of
nuclear missile launch platforms, this is yet to materialise and may
not. The Russian Navy has struggled to commission new submarines due
to limited budgets and an erosion of their defence industry. It is
unlikely that they will succeed with this.If the UK
withdrew its submarine launched nuclear deterrent capability, there is a
strong possibility that Russia could be persuaded do the
same. Furthermore, China has one old submarine with Nuclear missiles
which don't have the range to reach the UK. Indian missiles are out of
range of the UK, likewise Israel and Pakistan only has free fall bombs. If the UK replaces
Trident, at a cost of £40B, then this will motivate Russia, China and
India to develop nuclear bombs. Likewise, there is a strong argument
that if the UK didn't replace Trident then the Submarine launched
nuclear deterrents of Russia and China would wither on the vine. And it
is likely that France would also follow our lead in due course; even the
US. The UK government could develop this as a diplomatic strategic
objective and open up negotiations. One argument for
replacing Trident would be to assure the UK's place on the UN security
council. Removal for not having nuclear weapons is far from certain and
India, with a nuclear capability is not a member. Either way, at £40B
that makes it a very expensive club to join and there is more to being a
super-power or having super-influence than having nuclear weapons. The world has certainly
changed since the cold war ended. We are now enjoying a peace that will
be long and enduring. Ideological governments have melted away and
democracy, trade and inter-governmental organisations are the new order.
Russia's democracy is developing and their biggest foreign policy
interest is their essential oil and gas exports. China is economically,
and structurally, co-dependent on the West as is India and Pakistan. Any
future conflict between these powers are likely to be limited and in
the soft form of cyber-attacks, 3rd world influence, economic trade
and industrial espionage. The UK is not under
threat of being attacked by nuclear weapons from any state on earth.
Furthermore, the UK could not launch trident without the involvement of
the US and if it did, the US would most likely deliver their own strike.
The UK is also not under
threat of being invaded. No nation has the capabilities to invade the
UK. France and Germany don't have the hardware or resources. We are
beyond the reach of the Russian Army, Navy and Air force. Even if they
were closer, they couldn't sustain a military campaign against the UK or
launch an invasion. Even the USA would struggle militarily to invade
the UK. And China and India are not capable of any operations outside
their own region. So replacing Trident
seems a big waste of £40B and would offer the UK little or no military,
diplomatic, political, security or moral advantage. There's not threat
of a nuclear strike and we are not at risk of a conventional attack
on UK soil.Of course the Treasury would claw-back from some cash from cancelling the Trident replacement. However the UK government would have to compensate with increased commitments to conventional equipment.UK armed forces would
certainly benefit from some of the £40Billion saved being spent on other
hardware to meet the growing global diplomatic and defence needs.

The RAF 's expensive
Euro fighter is defending UK airspace despite no actual threat to our
airspace. Yet is has insufficient strategic assets to lift and deploy
an expeditionary land force and deliver and support long range
air-strikes.

The Royal Navy
has the best submarines and air-defence ships in the world. The two new
aircraft carriers will provide enhanced diplomatic leverage to future
governments. But the Navy's assets are hugely expensive and so limited
in numbers. The Royal Navy doesn't have enough ships to provide the
adequate response to diplomatic, security and humanitarian objectives.
It needs a mix of more world-class vessels as well as
affordable utilitarian ships. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary should have the
standing capability for delivering humanitarian relief in the event of
war or natural disaster.

The Army, while
reducing to the historic expeditionary level of 80,000, will also have
equipment needs in the form of more versatile fighting vehicles,
improved communications equipment, intelligence gathering assets,
helicopters and battlefield strike capabilities such as artillery and
drones. There will also be a need to invest in the infrastructure and
equipment to continuously train reservists and, possibly, local armies.

Increased investment in
conventional equipment to enhance the capabilities of the armed forces
would offer greater influence on the world stage. It would enhance our
projection of hard and soft power. It would boost the manufacturing
base and defence exports. It would also allow the UK to take a moral
lead in nuclear disarmament, which would enhance our prestige,
reputation and influence in the world. So let's start
to discuss and debate the option of no Trident replacement. Let's start
now with limited and restricted patrols. Consider silo launched land
capabilities as a replacement to sea-launched if we can't stomach the
concept of Pakistan, North Korean and possible Iran being in a nuclear
club without the UK. But one thing is for sure, the UK does not need to
spend £40B on a state-of-the-art submarine launched nuclear deterrent to
preserve the peace in the next 50 years.